After the quake (pt. 4)

A collection of news coverage related to the Tohoku-Kanto earthquake, curated by The Japan Times and guest contributors. You can embed this information on any blog or webpage (like this one: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/quake-links.html) using the <> button in the top right. All times below are JST, followed by editor initials in brackets.

Sakuji Funayama watched intently as a giant steel claw tore chunks off the remains of his two-story home, ripped open like a dollhouse by last month's tsunami and washed up onto a pile of debris. Suddenly, he spied something, waved his arms and pointed.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. intends to sell property worth about 100 billion yen to raise funds for the massive amount of compensation it is likely to pay, it was learned Friday. The operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has approached financial institutions about the matter and hopes to conduct most of the sales by next fiscal year, sources said. TEPCO appears to be hurrying to secure money by selling its assets, as a precondition for receiving financial support from the...

Japanese Government Targets “Harmful Rumors” 2011.04.13 Wednesday | category:報道 SNA (Tokyo) -- The Japanese government has now entered into the business of deciding what citizens may or may not talk about in public.A new project team has been created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, the National Police Agency, and METI to combat “rumors” deemed harmful to Japanese security in the wake of the March 11 disaster.Specifically, these government organizations asserted in a pr...

Developers in Tokyo’s bayside neighborhoods, where apartments were built on reclaimed land, are halting sales after Japan’s earthquake turned some of the landfill into mud, shattered pipes and severed water supplies.